/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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>>12593216
A drip pan/water pan isn't there to collect juices. It's there to act as a heat sink and to add humidity to the cooking chamber. I use a rectangular aluminum pan like pic related filled halfway with water. You really shouldn't be concerned with collecting drippings while smoking. If you are doing it correctly there should be almost no juice escaping, the only thing dripping will be rendered fat which you don't want to collect anyway. Of course if you are doing 321 ribs there will be juices that you SHOULD save, but otherwise it's not a thing.